"With honey bees the toxic dose (LD50) of the venom is estimated to be 8.6 stings per pound of body weight."

I hate yellow jackets. They fly too fast to swat out of the air, they're aggressive, they'll follow you at least 100', and if you try to pick them up by pinching their wings together you'll likely get stung because they are very flexible at the waist.

But, here's a trick.
I was at an outside table in a restaurant, and for some reason there were yellow jackets attracted to the table surface.
You simply cover them with a paper napkin and they become helpless.
Their stinger always points down, so with the tip of one finger you can crunch them or kill them, your choice.
If you crunch them, they spend the rest of the day repairing circuitry, fixing vexing software errors, trying to get new parts, etc., so they are pretty well occupied with internal matters. Or they just croak

Yellow jackets are supposedly the only bees that are attracted to food.

The day that my two little guys got stung last year, I called a pest control company to come out and spray. Just to make sure they knew what kind of pest they were looking for, I caught one and put it in a ziploc baggie. Then I hung it on the fridge with a magnet so it wouldn't get lost.

A few hours later, the older boy (11) walked up to it and picked it up. It stung his finger through the bag. That made the 3rd bee sting for him that day.

For a long term wipeout, you may need to bate them. Borax, tuna and apple juice fermenting outside near their nest with a few drops of dish detergent. You can google this mixture under home made wasp traps.

Put it in a jug with an inverted pop (soda) bottle top.... as in a funnel shaped . They fly in for the scent and die, in volume, kamikaze style. They follow the rotting tuna and the juice baking in the sun, but you won`t smell it. That is why they are dive bombing outdoor garbage cans at playgrounds and BBQs.

If you opt for torch tag, remember you are outnumbered. I would spray bomb into the opening at night when they are dormant. Most wasp spray has a long tragectory for a guy with nerves of steel or chainmail underwear

Heck, We had an ongoing war with them when we lived in Oklahoma. If you try anything with the nest, you durn better make sure you get them all or they will chase you into the next county!

We moved. Okay, that wasn't the only reason we moved but I am glad to get away from them.

In my area they build a tunnel a foot or so long that leads to an underground chamber the size of a volleyball, so most the gasoline just burns in the tunnel and doesn't really affect their "homeland."

In my area they build a tunnel a foot or so long that leads to an underground chamber the size of a volleyball, so most the gasoline just burns in the tunnel and doesn't really affect their "homeland."

I think they need to take a course in anger management.

Yeah, but with gasoline burning for 15 minutes I've yet to see any survive. They need to beathe too

In my area they build a tunnel a foot or so long that leads to an underground chamber the size of a volleyball, so most the gasoline just burns in the tunnel and doesn't really affect their "homeland."

I'm surprised you don't have a flame thrower.

Best cure for a wasp sting, put mud on it. It is readily available and the mud acts as a drawing salve to remove the toxin and stinger.